In Hand Images of Legacy EV Scraphook and Needlenose + Video Review

The transformation of TM² Megatron is a bit more involved than expected. I have one nitpick for the bot mode. That giant back panel-kibble just hanging there. It's unsightly and I'm sure with some extra hinged, it could have been folded neatly on his back. Appart that detail, he's pretty damn nice.

Now, for my Amazon preorder to be fulfilled...

william-james88 wrote:

Emerje wrote:Yes, I saw exactly one Quasar at Walgreens one time and I wasn't even looking for toys (I had gotten my Red Alert from Pulse), it just caught my eye, I didn't know it was an exclusive until Scott's video. Walgreens doesn't handle toys the same way as department stores, instead of whole cases they get a selection from the warehouse so not finding an exclusive could mean anything from them never showing up to each store only getting one and they all sold out fast. We can guess that Red Alert was a victim to shipping delays as the figure didn't show up in stores (though I thought one was recently found, maybe I imagined that), had a very limited release online in December (perhaps from the same shipment as Pulse), and now nearly a year later is easily obtained online again. That is a very clear sign that Walgreens had no ill intent or a sudden lack of interest in selling them in stores, they clearly didn't have them to sell in the first place and it's time for other things to be in stores.

Emerje

They did have them to sell on time, but their whole toy business model may have been in dissaray. Hasbro was able to get these from asia to north america in time. That's why they were found at Canadian retail in June https://www.seibertron.com/transformers ... le%20times).

And that's the same time Canada got all the previous walgreens exclusives, and in the meantime in the states they sit in Walgreens warehouses waiting for the holiday season to be distributed to stores.

So Walgreens did have them. BUT what we don't know is if due to not having other toys, they chose to do things differently that year with their holiday shopping options.

I'm not convinced. Pulse and EB Games had them in the summer and Walgreens.com had small amount in December, sure, but I have a hard time believing Walgreens simply forgot they had them in the warehouse in November when they normally start showing up in stores or didn't care to put them in stores while still stocking other exclusives from Hasbro plus I believe they had some exclusive Pops and a few other things in stores.

Not everything comes in one shipment, especially now when everything is still backed up and things are often shipped as space is found, not necessarily everything all at once. Does Hasbro ship to Canada by land across the boarder or do they ship by boat to Canadian ports? I'm guessing the latter. Just because Canada got their entire lot they were able to move them off the wharf into warehouses in a timely manner and Pulse got their 5% on time and Walgreens got enough to put what felt like another 5% on Walgreens.com from their website's warehouse doesn't mean they got the entirety of their stock all at once. To me it seems more likely that they had crates full of Red Alerts that were sitting on a dock somewhere until months later, at which point it wasn't a priority and sat in their warehouse until they recently decided to do something about it.

If Minerva doesn't show up in Walgreens stores I still wouldn't call that undeniable proof that they don't care about exclusives, we're still suffering from various delays. Most of us still haven't seen Legacy Deluxe Wave 2 or Core wave 2 in stores and it's almost November! Things will likely be better next year, that should give us a better idea of what's going on (unless someone at Walgreens comes along and actually tells us).

Emerje

sol magnus wrote:I got him like Friday in Target. LOL

What do you try to accomplish with posts like this?

william-james88 wrote:

sol magnus wrote:I got him like Friday in Target. LOL

What do you try to accomplish with posts like this?

Mostly I forgot to let you guys know? The other part is it's probably more widesoread than just a sighting.

Meanwhile, I'm continuing to enjoy Skids. They did such a nice job with him.

I look forward to Crosscut, and I might see about snagging Burnout.


On a tangent, I continue to hope for a Commander-class Ultra Magnus.

First-Aid wrote:Skids looks like a Yugo.













I think I just dated myself....

Technically it looks like a 1980's Honda City. Admittedly the Honda City is similar to the Yugo.

Emerje wrote:You have more confidence in US logistics than I do the past two years. Just because they all hit the port at the same time doesn't mean they all left at the same time, especially if they're going to different locations and via different forms of transportation. There's a lot of stories from retailers big and small about things sitting in containers for half a year before finally moving. I'm unsure if Hasbro takes in all 100% of exclusives to their warehouse and then splits them among their destinations or if they do it before it even ships to streamline the process. If it's the latter than there really is no telling who's getting what when.

This is a very fair point. Through JTPrime's statements through the past few years of port activity, I feel confident in saying that Hasbro and Walgreen's stock would have had to come in at the same time at port (the same toy will come in all at once and be divided up for different retailers after), but yes the step afterwards can totally be botched.

Also, I didn't know that Walgreens did have their reset with Red Alert being the odd man out.

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:

Overcracker wrote:

First-Aid wrote:Skids looks like a Yugo.


I think I just dated myself....

Technically it looks like a 1980's Honda City. Admittedly the Honda City is similar to the Yugo.

It's because they're both box-body subcompact hatchbacks. It's like how the Fiat 500 and VW beetle look similar because they're both round-body rear-engine subcompacts, only moreso because of the hatchbacks having such no-frills coachwork.

Yes, but the point being, Skids original toy was a Honda City. So his current toy looks like that first and foremost.

It's just coincidental that it also looks like a Yugo because they are similar cars.

william-james88 wrote:We have a video review of Scraphook now available.

Great to see Seibertron's support for such a tasseographic look to a future TF release. Your support keeps this all going!

However, I believe the video and screenshots came out some time ago. Screenshots were even posted (at this thread?) a while back, I believe?

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Overcracker wrote:

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:

Overcracker wrote:

First-Aid wrote:Skids looks like a Yugo.


I think I just dated myself....

Technically it looks like a 1980's Honda City. Admittedly the Honda City is similar to the Yugo.

It's because they're both box-body subcompact hatchbacks. It's like how the Fiat 500 and VW beetle look similar because they're both round-body rear-engine subcompacts, only moreso because of the hatchbacks having such no-frills coachwork.

Yes, but the point being, Skids original toy was a Honda City. So his current toy looks like that first and foremost.

It's just coincidental that it also looks like a Yugo because they are similar cars.

Right down to the missing floor so you could use your feet to help push the car past 30 mph and up small hills....